(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Act” means the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016);
(b) “Authority” means the Unique Identification Authority of India established under subsection (1) of section 11 of the Act;
(c) “Central Identities Data Repository” or “CIDR” means a centralised database in one or more locations containing all Aadhaar numbers issued to Aadhaar number holders along with the corresponding demographic information and biometric information of such individuals and other information related thereto;
(d) “enrolling agency” means an agency appointed by the Authority or a Registrar, as the case may be, for collecting demographic and biometric information of individuals under this Act;
(e) “information security policy” means the policy specified by the Authority under regulation 3 of these regulations;
(f) “personnel” means all officers, employees, staff and other individuals employed or engaged by the Authority or by the service providers for discharging any functions under the Act;
(g)“registrar” means any entity authorised or recognised by the Authority for the purpose of enrolling individuals under this Act;
(h) “regulations” means the regulations made by the Authority under this Act;
(i) “requesting entity” means an agency or person that submits the Aadhaar number, and demographic information or biometric information, of an individual to the Central Identities Data Repository for authentication;
(j) “service provider” includes all entities engaged by the Authority for discharging any function related to its processes.
1 Published in the Gazette of India, Part III, Section 4, dated 14.9.2016, vide notification No. 13012/64/ 2016/ Legal/UIDAI (No. 4 of 2016), dated 12.9.2016.
(2) All other words and expressions used but not defined in these regulations, but defined in the Act or the Information Technology Act, 2000 and/or the rules and regulations made thereunder shall have the same meaning as respectively assigned to them in such Acts or rules or regulations or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereto, as the case may be.